Identifier: illustratedbooko00blak (find matches)
Title: The illustrated book of canaries and cage-birds, British and foreign
Year: 1878 (1870s)
Authors: Blakston, W. A Swaysland, W Wiener, August F
Subjects: Canaries Cage birds
Publisher: London New York : Cassell, Petter, Galpin & Co.
Contributing Library: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Harvard University, Museum of Comparative Zoology, Ernst Mayr Library

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ess flights of the Buff bird, and is a strong point. Theground-colour of a Buff Mule is a pure dead white, delicately shaded by creamy tones which, underthe effects of cayenne-feeding, become richer and warmer, particularly on the breast, where thecolour scintillates with great beauty. Botii forms of the bird should show as much blaze aspossible, which should be ruddy and full of fire. In the Jonque it is generally evenlydistributed and delicately shaded off towards the margin, but in the Buff is sometimes foundless so, and occasionally in small disconnected patches, possibly more discernible than in theJonque from the nature of the ground-colour, a ticked form of face having its counterpartin some examples of the Goldfinch itself These disconnected ruddy feathers must not beconfounded with the darker specks occasionally present near the margin of the face, whichare in reality bond fide dark feathers connected with the cheeks, and can be regarded in no CasselLs Canaries and Cage Birds
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TmoentBrcjoks.Day «. Son Lith GOLDFINCH & CANARY MULES. EV E N LY- M A R K E D BUFF. VARIEGATED YELLOW. E V E N L Y-M A R K E D YELLOW. Ticked and Clear Mules. 263 other light than as positive blemishes detrimental, but not fatal, to the intctests of a Markedbird, though altogether inadmissible in one claiming to be Clear. Within one step of the perfection reached in the Clear or Clean Mule—we use the termsin this place as synonymous—is the Ticked bird, generally understood to mean, as amongCanaries, one without marking of any kind on eyes, wings, or tail, and having no body-marksexcept an indistinct form of variegation. This is the strict definition ; but it is usual toallow a little licence, which we think might be still further extended with advantage tothis class, and without infringing on the spirit of the rules governing any other. To conveyour meaning in terms as brief and concise as possible, we must explain that the termTicked is usually understood to apply only to b

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